The Zuckerberg Files is a digital archive of all public utterances of Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. It includes over 100 full-text transcripts and bibliographic data of all publicly-available content representing the voice and words of Zuckerberg, including blog posts, letters to shareholders, media interviews, public appearances and product presentations, and quotes in other sources. Nearly 50 video files are also available for downloading.
The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result. This artifact can tell us extraordinary things about who we are and what we want as a cultu
CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File, Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975, With White House Memcons on Damage Control National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222 Edited by Thomas Blanton Posted - June 21
by Shane Harris, NATIONAL JOURNAL (10/20/2006). The new U.S. intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning.
The new U.S. intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning.
Ten years after the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, the fundamental promises of American democracy are hanging by a thin thread. Promoted by a culture of war and fear, the US government has steadily chipped away at those legal protections that enabled 'we the people' to rule ourselves. "Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the Homeland" charts the course of this shift, exposing the rapid advent of a technologically advanced surveillance state in the shadows of the Twin Towers. FOIA | Surveillance | Immigration.
Baker provides us with a fascinating guide to the world of "The Numerati" who use the data we produce every day (click web pages, flip channels, drive through automatic toll booths, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls) to profile us as workers, shoppers, patients, voters, potential terrorists, and lovers.
even in the most wildly optimistic projections, data mining isn't tenable for uncovering future terrorist plots. We're not trading privacy for security; we're giving up privacy and getting no security in return.